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Thursday, 1 September 2016

NEW DELHI: Reliance
Industries (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Thursday unveiled the details of
Reliance Jio launch at the company's 42nd annual general meeting (AGM) in
Mumbai laid out his plans to unveil a 4G LTE mobile network Jio (the
largest in the world) in the country, including making all domestic voice calls
and roaming free, while saying data would be priced but below its competitors.

Mr. Ambani said in company’s annual
general meeting in Mumbai that 4G network would cover 90 per cent of India's
1.25 billion population by March 2017 and would eventually cover 18,000 cities
and 200,000 villages.

Key
highlights from his address to the shareholders:

1.45 plans at Rs.50 per GB

2.Free data services for the first four months
after the launch

3.Free voice calls, data services

4.Zero roaming charges

5.Under it's welcome offer, all Jio
services including voice, apps, and 4G LTE data would be available free of cost
to everyone from September 5 to December 31, 2016.

6.All voice calls to be free; no Jio
customer will have to pay for any voice call 10 tariff plans starting at Rs 19 a day for occasional users

10.The base 4G LTE data rate on Jio will be
1/10th of other players - at INR 50 per GB

11.10 4G LTE data plans to choose from

12.Under a special student discount
scheme, students to get 25% more data on producing a valid student identity
card

13.A peak download speed of upto 135 MBPS on the
Jio network

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15.Jio's app booking, worth INR 15,000 for
an annual subscription, will be available free for all active Jio customers
till December 31, 2017

16.To be formally launched on September 5

17.4G-enabled smartphones to be launched at INR
2,999 under its LYF brand

"We have price
points starting from Rs 19 for the occasional data user, to a monthly Rs 149
plan for the light data user and all the way up to a monthly Rs 4,999 plan for
the heaviest data user," Ambani said.

Two-thirds
of India's 1.3 billion population are not online, and Jio hopes to capture 100
million users - nearly half of India's current smartphone users - within a year
of launch.

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